Anyone who doesn't like MAMMA MIA is a racist.
Anyway, my wife bought this for me for my birthday and having never seen the show and not being a huge fan of ABBA (I do like me some Dancing Queen) I thought I'd hate it. Ended up being pleasantly surprised. It's a very energetic, very fun musical that takes a stab at "deep". I don't think the dance choreography is poor at all, there's some impressive stuff going on there.
Yeah, it's cheesy, but it's fun, and the songs are mostly very good. The performances are also very good, from the surprising Amanda Seyfriend, who has a lovely, if very "poppy" voice, to the supporting cast. Colin Firth can very much sing, he's just not a powerhouse. Whereas Pierce Brosnan is a powerhouse, but he very much cannot sing. Or can he? Pierce is an enigma in this movie, and I find him almost fascinating to watch. He clearly can sing. He just doesn't know how. At all. The man has almost a sort of "rock star" voice, and no clue how to use it, and that makes watching him alternatively impressive, painful, and hilarious, because he can either belt, or can barely sing the notes he's supposed to. I do like his last song, "When All is said and Done" for some reason. He sounds sort of like Gordon Lightfoot in it. Worth a watch if you're a fan of modern musicals.
